Strangers
One way I think citizens in communities across Jamaica can help the police in their fight against crime is for citizens to call in and report to the police all newcomers/strangers in their district/communities, so that the police can investigate them.
They should also report strangers who show up with a man/woman who reside in the community, and also individuals who were away from their communities for an extended period of time and suddenly move back into the community.
The police should have established telephone numbers that citizens can call, and also have an emergency plan and team of officers in place to act on these reports. I think this will put a dent in the migration of criminal elements to safe havens in rural communities across Jamaica.
- Authnel Reid
authnelreid@optonline.net Middlesex, NJ, Via Go-Jamaica
Zero tolerance
We have to hold our Government to zero tolerance regarding corruption; in so doing, the root will produce branches of good ethical characteristics.
We the Jamaican people have grown physiologically and psychologically weary and throw our hands in the air and say "a so things run", to corrupt behaviour. We acquiesce to corruption and it seems to have become an acceptable norm in the society.
We must not blame the churches, private sector organisation or any group without first looking at our reflection in the mirror. We of all walks of the socio-economic ladder have conformed to illicit conduct of our elected and non-elected members of our society.
Integrity is ours to uphold or to throw away. Let us as Jamaicans choose to uphold integrity and not be like the proverbial ostrich, stick our heads in the sand. Let us when we see corruption, expose it, that is a true patriot. One Love in Jesus Christ, Jamaica.
- Derrick O'Reagan
Kamjel44@Verizon.net
East Stroudsburg, PA, USA
Via Go-Jamaica
Humprey Mcbean
I would like to contact my student Humprey McBean who was a student at Papine Secondary School. I am his past teacher and would very much like to find him.
- Normalee Gallimore
plummer1834@comcast.net, Evanston, IL
Via Go-Jamaica
